Kim Bellard
@kimbbellard.bsky.social
Just a curious guy. I write a little, usually on Medium. Health care, tech, the future - those kinds of things.
Just outrageous, and despicable. But entirely on brand. 😡 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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A researcher in Siberia may have died from accidental exposure to the plague. Let's hope that the real story is not even worse than that. kimbellard.medium.com/a-plague-on-...
A Plague on All Our Houses
It’s not a plague. It’s not that plague. It’s nothing to worry about. Probably.
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🤔 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...
What Are the Biggest Questions in Science Today? 100 Scientists Weigh In. (Gift Article)
We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the possibilities for human progress and much more.
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🤬 @cdelawalla.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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👏 @boltyboy.bsky.social @emmabethmcginty.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social Thinking of Healthcare Reform as a Movement – The Health Care Blog share.google/OqIvkIZKl2PK...
Thinking of Healthcare Reform as a Movement – The Health Care Blog
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As bad as you already think plastic is for our health and for the environment, and as indifferent as you suspect the petrochemical industry is to those, this book makes it clear that it's much worse. 😟 H/T @bethgardiner.bsky.social www.bethgardiner.com
PLASTIC INC. | Beth Gardiner
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The fact that the provider-payors wars continue but now with AI shouldn't come as a surprise, but let's stop and ask ourselves: does "bot-on-bot" warfare help patients? 😒 H/T @reedabelson.bsky.social @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social medium.com/@kimbellard/...
Healthcare Is Fighting the Wrong AI War
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is crying wolf about AI. Its new analysis claims that “hospital systems are increasingly billing…
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Sure, we CAN use AI to increase healthcare revenues (for both payors and providers), but that doesn't mean we SHOULD. Let's focus on helping patients, not institutions' bottom lines. @rasushrestha.bsky.social @drewaltman.bsky.social medium.com/@kimbellard/...
Healthcare Is Fighting the Wrong AI War
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is crying wolf about AI. Its new analysis claims that “hospital systems are increasingly billing…
medium.com
Doctors and hospitals are fighting with health insurers about using AI to determine payments. It's what I'd expect, but it's not what we be using AI in healthcare for. kimbellard.medium.com/healthcare-i...
Healthcare Is Fighting the Wrong AI War
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is crying wolf about AI. Its new analysis claims that “hospital systems are increasingly billing…
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#BruceSterling@bruces.bsky.social · last wk."A 'Rogue AI' is like a dog that bites somebody, so the dog owner gets properly punished" *Well, no. A proper Rogue AI is like a cyberwar computer-virus, where I round up a thousand stray dogs, give them all rabies, and then parachute them into your neighborhood. #plausiblydeniable #GrayWar
That about sums it up. 😒 “There’s this assumption that there are adults in the room on this issue, but there are no adults in this room,” said Sean Ó Heigeartaigh, director of the AI: Futures and Responsibility Program at the University of Cambridge." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/t...
As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind (Gift Article)
The gap between technology and policymaking has gotten wider than ever with artificial intelligence, leaving a global policy vacuum as A.I. models rapidly advance.
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Shameful. Scary. Stupid. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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😮 "China now accounts for 32 percent of global manufacturing value added, twice its share in 2010, and more than the combined total of the next four biggest manufacturing powers — the United States, Germany, Japan and South Korea" wapo.st/4z1Ldce
How China is conquering high-tech markets once controlled by the West
Once known for using cheap labor to produce inexpensive clothes and toys, Chinese factories increasingly make some of the world’s most sophisticated products.
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The "backtracks" in the headline is sort of negated by the "recalibrate" in the actual article. Methinks they're going figuring out how to go around the obstacle, not being stopped by it. @cdelawalla.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
Trump Backtracks on Plan for New Controls on N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Democrats and Republicans in Congress opposed the creation of a commission with the power to veto federal research awards.
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🤔 Jensen Huang made a similar comment to Ezra Klein about AI meaning not needing to learn how to do math. Losing basic skills seems like a problem. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
Opinion | A.I. Has Made Me a Better Doctor. It’s Made Med Students Worse. (Gift Article)
I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.
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We don't really understand what AI is doing or how, but that shouldn't be so surprising, since we don't really understand what our brain is doing or how either. 🤔 medium.com/@kimbellard/...
Know Thyselves
With all the fuss about A.I. I was pleased to find some studies that illustrate that we don’t even fully understand the human brain yet…
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This is not what we should be using AI in healthcare for...but it is exactly what I expected to happen. 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher (Gift Article)
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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Have you ever said "I'm of two minds" about something? It turns out, you're more right than you may have realized. 😮 medium.com/@kimbellard/...
Know Thyselves
With all the fuss about A.I. I was pleased to find some studies that illustrate that we don’t even fully understand the human brain yet…
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